I find that some people (myself often included) want to believe that acupuncture can magically cure everything right away. Perhaps this is due to the curious way acupuncture works, perhaps it’s due to a lack of familiarity, or maybe it’s just because we so badly want a quick fix. This goes back to a previous post I wrote with a case-study where we saw someone’s IBS be completely resolved  over the course of 3 months.

Maybe it’s an injury we want to get over, maybe it’s reoccurring headaches, maybe it’s acid-reflux or emotional depression, regardless of the malady at hand there’s a good chance that acupuncture can help. But it’s not a silver-bullet one-treatment-and-you’re-fixed modality of healing. It’s a healing process where slowly but surely, your body moves back into a healthy balance.

An analogy that came to me this evening over dinner with a couple of my roommates was one of a renovation in your house. Sometimes your sink is leaking and you call the plumber and he or she comes and fixes the same day and you’re all set. But say your kitchen just isn’t working. It hasn’t been thoroughly cleaned in a while, the cabinets are all creaky and get stuck all the time (some of the shelves have fallen), most of your dishware is broken, the stove will only turn on half the time, and one of the lightbulbs is out. It make take more than a day to fix all of those problems. So maybe the first day you do a solid job cleaning, and then another day you go buy more dishes, and meanwhile you get new cabinets (which take a week to install), you get the drift. It might take a few weeks before your kitchen is up and running. Hopefully, you feel better after each progressive step. Regardless, patience is key.